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Isolation and Characterization of Streptomycetes with Plant Growth Promoting Potential from Mangrove Ecosystem POOJA SHRIVASTAVA1*, RAJESH KUMAR1, MAHESH S. YANDIGERI2, NITYANAND MALVIYA2, and DILIP K. ARORA2

 Department of Environmental Microbiology, Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University (A Central University), Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India 2  National Bureau of Agriculturally Important Microorganisms, Kushmaur, Maunath Bhanjan, Uttar Pradesh, India 1

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A total of 66 actinomycetes isolates were isolated from mangroves of Andhra Pradesh, India, using various enrichment techniques and pretreatments. The samples were collected from Coringa mangrove ecosystem and pre-treated by enrichment with CaCO3, sodium dodecyl sulphate and phenol, plated on the media supplemented with cycloheximide (50 mg/ml), nystatin (25 mg/ml) and nalidixic acid (50 mg/ml). The population count of actinomycetes fluctuated from 1.9 × 105 to 8.0 × 105/g soil. Out of the isolated 66 actinomycetes, 8 isolates pos­sessing plant growth promoting potential were further studied and characterized by physiological and biochemical traits and identified by 16S rRNA gene sequencing as different species of Streptomycetes genera. K e y w o r d s: 16S rRNA, ARDRA, IAA, mangroves, PGPR, Streptomycetes

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seen over recent sand / mud spits on the Nizampatnam bay (RSAM, 1992). Sparse mangroves are found on the eastern side of the Krishna delta. Actinomycetes being gram-positive bacteria show­ ing a filamentous growth like fungi. They are aerobic and group of organisms widely spread in nature, with high G+C content (60–70 mol %) and are important sources of antibiotics (> 50%) and enzymes (Edwards, 1993; Gharaibeh et al., 2003; Weber et al., 2003; Shan­ tikumar et al., 2006). Screening and isolation of promising actinomy­ cetes from mangrove ecosystem with potential anti­ microbial compounds is still a thrust area of research and it is suggested that the exploration of new areas and habitats played a vital role in the search for new microbes and novel metabolites (Horinouchi, 2002). The genus Streptomyces produce approximately 75% of commercially and medically useful antibiotics and 60% of antibiotics used in agriculture (Sanghvi et al., 2014). Seasonal variations of antagonistic actinomycetes have been determined in selected mangrove ecosystems and highest numbers of actinomycetes during monsoon have been recorded. The microbial interrelationship in mangrove sediments does exist between bacteria and

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Mangrove is one of the most productive ecosystems and a natural renewable resource (Kathiresan, 2003; Balachandran et al., 2009). These are a unique woody plant community of intertidal coasts in the tropical and subtropical zones, which are regarded as highly pro­ ductive ecosystems and abode to unexplored micro­ bial diversity including actinomycetes (Balagurunathan et al., 2010). Mangroves provide a unique ecological niche to a  variety of microorganisms (Agate, 1991). About 125 species of microorganisms (bacteria, fungi, algae) have been identified from mangrove environ­ ment (Kathirvel, 1996). Exploitation of less/unexplored ecosystems for actinomycetes is highly necessary for the discovery of novel bioactive metabolites (Sahoo and Dhal, 2009). Among the different mangrove locations Andhra Pradesh of India has dense mangrove vegetation found towards coast rather than on shore land because of the dense branching network of creeks, which exist towards the coast (RSAM, 1992). There is more mangrove vege­ tation on tidal flats on the western side of the Krishna delta than on its eastern side. Dense mangroves are also

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ORIGINAL PAPER

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Polish Journal of Microbiology 2015, Vol. 64, No 4, 339–349

*  Corresponding author:  P. Shrivastava, Department of Environmental Microbiology, Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University (A Central University), Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India; e-mail: [email protected]

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Experimental Materials and Methods

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Soil sampling. A total of 10 soil samples and one water sample were collected from the Mangrove eco­ system of Kakinada District, Coringa (latitude 16°44´

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Table I Details of sources of samples, pH and geographical Co-ordinates Source

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Mangroves water sample Nearby sea shore.

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Cfu/g soil

16°30”-17°N,82 10”-80°23”E

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Avicennia marina (mangrove plant)

16° 56” N, 82° 13” E

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2.25 × 105

Rhizospheric soil

Avicennia officinalis (mangrove plant)

16° 56” N, 82° 13” E

7.3

1.9 × 105

Rhizospheric soil

Excoecaria agallocha (mangrove plant)

16° 56” N, 82° 13” E

7.6

2.4 × 105

Rhizospheric soil

Sonneratia apetala (mangrove plant)

16° 56” N, 82° 13” E

7.2

3.06 × 105

Aegicerale corniculatum (mangrove plant)

16° 56” N, 82° 13” E

7.4

3.9 × 105

Grasses growing in mangrove

16° 56” N, 82° 13” E

7.0

2.86 × 105

Ceriops decandra (mangrove plant)

16° 56” N, 82° 13” E

7.2

3.93 × 105

Rhizospheric soil

Rhizophora conjugata (mangrove plant)

16° 56” N, 82° 13” E

7.5

3.61 × 105

Rhizospheric soil

Hibiscus titraceous

16° 56” N, 82° 13” E

7.1

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Soil sample

Sample near the start of Coringa wild life sanctuary 16° 56” N, 82° 13” E

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to 16°53´N and longitude 82°14´ to 82°22´E), Andhra Pradesh, India by systematic sampling method. Samples were collected from 15 cm depth and transported to the laboratory in sterile bags and air-dried at room tem­ perature. The geographical locations, as well as physiochemical properties of samples were recorded (Table I). Isolation of actinomycetes. Samples were sub­ jected to various enrichment techniques like CaCO3 (Tsao et al., 1960), SDS (Hayakawa and Nonomura, 1989), phenol (Hayakawa et al., 2004), and media such as, Starch Casein Agar (SCA), Actinomycetes Isolation Agar (AIA) and Soil Extract Agar (SEA), amended with antibiotics nystatin (25 mg/ml), cycloheximide (50  mg/ml) and nalidixic acid (50  mg/ml), were employed for the isolation of Streptomycetes. The air dried samples were incubated at 55°C for 5 min in an incubator. One gram of soil was dissolved in 100 ml of distilled water (10–2 dilution) and 1 ml of 10–3, 10–4, 10–5 serial dilutions were spread plated on media amended with antibiotics using dilution-plate technique and incubated at 30°C for 2–3  weeks. After incubation, actinomycetes colonies were selected and maintained by sub-culturing on ISP-2 agar (g/l: 4.0 g glucose; 4.0 g yeast extract; 10.0 g malt extract; 18.0 g agar) slants and stored at 4°C for further use. Identification by polyphasic taxonomy. Out of the isolated actinomycetes eight isolates (AM2-2, AM2-3, AM2-4, AM2-7, AM2-8, AM2-10, AM2-11, AM5-16) were characterized by morpho-physiological, bioche­ mical and molecular methods. Identification of actino­ mycetes was carried out, using standard methods of morphological and physiological traits (Shirling and Gottlieb, 1966) and Bergey’s Manual of Systematic Bac­ teriology (Williams et al., 1989). Morphological me­th­ ods consisted of macroscopic and microscopic studies. For chemotaxonomic studies, the colonies were grown in glucose yeast extract malt extract broth for 4–5 days and then filtered out and processed for determination

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actinomycetes, bacteria and fungi, and fungi and actino­ mycetes (Rathna Kala, 1995). However, across the globe, the world’s mangroves are threatened. Mangrove habitats are being destroyed as rivers are dammed, their waters diverted and the intertidal zone extensively developed for agriculture or aquaculture. Previous study showed that actinomycetes isolated from Malay­ sian soil have the potential to inhibit the growth of plant pathogens (Jeffrey et al., 2007). Likewise actinomycetes isolated from Turkey’s farming soil have the ability to inhibit Erwinia amylovora a bacteria that cause fireb­ light to apple and Agrobacterium tumefaciens a causal agent of Crown Gall disease (Oskay et al., 2004). Besides acting agents for control of plant pathogens they also possess the capability for plant growth pro­ motion (Nassar et al., 2003; da Silva Sousa et al., 2008). This is due to their capacity to produce IAA, antibiotics, siderophores, enzymes that have antimicrobial activity, substances that promote plant growth, solubilization of phosphates and competition with plant pathogens for substratum and nutrients (Hamdali et al., 2008; da Silva Sousa et al., 2008). The present study aims at isolation of actinomycetes from mangrove ecosystem of Andhra Pradesh, India and to evaluate their plant growth promoting potential by siderophore and IAA production assay. The study also focusses on the genetic diversity study of the plant growth promoting isolates on the basis of morpho-phy­ sio­logical, biochemical and molecular characteristics.

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The final volume of reaction mixture of 50 µl contained 1X PCR buffer (10 mM Tris-HCl, 50 mM KCl, pH 9.0 at 25°C), 1.5 mM MgCl2, 200 mM of each dNTP, 1 mM of each primer, 0.25 U of Taq polymerase and 500 ng of template DNA. The amplification was performed on BioRad thermal cycler (initial denaturation step at 98°C for 3 min, after which Taq polymerase was added, fol­ lowed by 30 amplification cycles of 94 C for 1 min, 52°C for 1 min, and 72°C for 10 min). Amplified ribosomal DNA restriction analysis (ARDRA). For restriction analysis, amplified ribosomal DNA was digested with three restriction endonucleases Taq I, Msp I and Hae III (Promega, India) according to manufacturer’s instructions and analyzed by horizontal electrophoresis in 2.5% agarose gels at 70 V for 2.5 h and documented on alpha-Imager gel documentation system (Alpha-Imager, USA). The restriction analysis profiles generated, were compared by calculating Jac­ card’s similarity coefficient for each pairwise compari­ son and dendrogram was constructed from the similar­ ity matrix by the UPGMA. In order to test the goodness of fit of cluster analysis, co-phenetic value matrices were calculated and compared with the original simi­ larity matrices that were UPGMA clustered by using the NTSYSpc analysis package (version 2.02e; Exeter Software, Setauket, NY). The amplified product of rep­ resentative isolates from each clusters were purified by PCR purification kit (Promega, India) and sequenced directly with the Taq-mediated dideoxy chain termina­ tor cycle sequencing in ABI 3130xl automated genetic analyser (Applied Biosystem, UK) according to manu­ facturer’s instructions. The sequences were aligned by ClustalW and BlastN programme was used to compare the sequences deposited in public databases and the phylogenetic tree was constructed with the MEGA software version 4.1 (Saitou and Nei, 1987). Gaps were treated by pairwise deletions and bootstrap analysis was done by using 5,000 pseudo-replications. Accession numbers: A total of eight sequences of 16S rRNA gene were deposited in public databases (GenBank, NCBI) under the accession numbers from KC511801 to KC511808.

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of the diaminopimelic acids (LL-DAP or meso-DAP) isomers and whole cell sugar patterns (Lechevalier and Lechevalier, 1980) using thin layer chromatography (TLC) on precoated cellulose plates (Merck, India). Scanning electron microscopy. Spore surface orna­ mentation was evaluated by Scanning electron micro­ scopy (SEM). Mycelia were taken (after 10 days of incu­ bation) and washed in 0.1 M sodium cacodylate buffer (pH 7.4). They were fixed in 2.5% glutaraldehyde in 0.1 M sodium cacodylate buffer for 4 h at 4°C followed by post-fixation with 1% osmium tetraoxide in 0.1 M sodium cacodylate buffer (pH 7.4) and dried in a criti­ cal point dryer (EMITECH model K850, Hitachi). The preparations were mounted onto aluminium holders, sputter-coated with 10 nm Au and observed by SEM (Hitachi model S3400 at 15–30 kV, 2–5.00 µm). Physiological characterization, plant growth promoting (PGP) attributes and extracellular enzymes production. Physiological characterization such as the effect of pH (6–9), temperature (20–45°C), salinity and carbon source utilization were studied. Carbohydrate utilization was determined by growth on carbon utili­ zation medium (ISP-2) (Pridham and Gottlieb, 1948) supplemented with 1% carbon source (Glucose, Arabi­ nose, Rhamnose, Mannitol, Dulcitol, Raffinose, Fruc­ tose, Sucrose, Lactose, Inositol). The intrinsic resistance of actinomycetes to salinity was evaluated according to Yadav et al. (2009), by observing the growth at 28 ± 2°C in tryptose soya broth amended with different concen­ trations of NaCl (2, 4, 6, 8% w/v). For growth promot­ ing attributes, phosphate solubilization (Mehta and Nautiyal, 2001), siderophore production (You et al., 2005), nitrate reduction (Glass et al., 1997), cyanogen­ esis (Schippers et al., 1990) and IAA production (Bano and Musarrat, 2003) were evaluated. The extracellular enzyme activity was assayed using standard methods such as amylase (Mishra and Behera, 2008), protease (Manachini et al., 1988), cellulase (Farkas et al., 1985), urease and gelatin degradation and hydrogen sulphide production were also studied following the protocol as reported by Cappuccino and Sherman (1992).

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Molecular characterization Extraction of actinomycetes DNA and PCR amplification. Genomic DNA was extracted from eight selected Streptomycetes isolates (having plant growth promoting properties) following the modified pro­ tocol of Boudjella et al. (2006). The purity check of DNA for analysing its quality and quantity was done by measuring the absorbance at 260 and 280 nm by spectrophotometer. The 16S rRNA gene fragment for the Streptomycetes was amplified by using two universal primer pair fD1 (5’-GAGTTTGATCCTGGCTCA-3’) and Rp2 (5’-CGGCTACCTTGTTACGACTT-3’). The 16S rRNA was amplified by PCR using Promega kit.

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Results Isolation and clustering of actinomycetes by polyphasic taxonomy. A total of 66 actinomycetes isolates were isolated from Coringa mangrove ecosystem, of these eight isolates showed considerable amount of variations in their colony morphology and possess­ ing plant growth promoting attributes were chosen for further physiological and biochemical characterization. The population count of actinomycetes fluctuated from 19 × 104 to 80 × 104 g soil–1 (Table I). Most of the isolates

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Physiological characterization of the isolated actinomycetes. Physiological tests are an important tool for classification of actinomycetes, influencing their growth and other properties. Physiological param­ eters like pH, temperature, NaCl concentration, carbon source utilization in the growth media were analysed. Growth of the selected 8 Streptomycetes isolates occurred in the pH range of 6–9 with optimum growth at pH 7.

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belonged to genus Streptomycetes and were tentatively identified by morphological characterization using aerial mycelial colour, substrate mycelial colour, pig­ ments, arrangement of spores in chain, like straight chain, rectiflexibles etc. as revealed by scanning electron microscopy (Fig. 1). Cell wall composition analysis of actinomycetes using thin layer chromatography (TLC) revealed type I cell wall with LL-DAP isomers.

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Fig. 1.  Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) of Streptomyces isolates isolated from mangrove of Andhra Pradesh, India, showing variations in spore chain morphology.

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isolates (Table III). The 4 isolates included in group I showed 100% sequence identity compared with most closely related sequences in public database (Streptomyces cavourensis, Streptomyces albogriseolus, Strep­to­myces spiralis, Streptomyces rochei), followed by 2  isolates in group II with 99% similarity (Streptomyces roseoviolaceus, Streptomyces celluloflavus) and 2 isolates in group III showing  97% compared with public database sequences, NCBI), by BLAST homo­ logy (Table  III). Further phylogenetic analysis of the isolates was carried out for their similarity to known actinobacteria aligned together with the sequences (closest representatives), available in public databases (GenBank, NCBI), of actinobacteria (Fig. 4). Three genetic groups were formed among the identified

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a) AM2-2 (Streptomyces globisporus), (b) AM2-3 (S. roseoviolaceus), (c) AM2-4 (S. cavourensis), (d) AM2-10 (S. celluloflavus), (e) AM2-11 (S. albogriseolus) (f) AM2-7 (S. spiralis), (g) AM2-10 (S. macrosporeus) (h) AM5-16 (S. rochei)

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Discussion

Actinomycetes population have been identified as one of the prominent group of soil microbes which dif­ fer with soil type, soil pH, geographical location and climatic condition (Arifuzzaman et al., 2010). The char­ acterization of these microbes is as important as study­ ing their existence in the natural environments (Hirsch and Valdes, 2010). Actinomycetes play a vital role in the soil such as mineralization of organic matters, immobi­ lization of nutrients, antibiosis and production of plant growth promoters (Adegboye and Babalola, 2012). In our studies heat pre-treatments, enrichment techniques and selective isolation media resulted in considerable decrease in the unwanted bacterial population, which was similar as obtained by Hayakawa (2008). By vari­ ous enrichment techniques and media used a total of 66 actinomycetes were isolated out of which 8 isolates with significant plant growth promotory attributes and growth under different pH and salinity levels, were characterised by 16S  rRNA sequencing as belong­ ing to Streptomycetes genera. This genus had also been previously evaluated for the characterization of plant growth promoting and other important traits as

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S. albogriseolus AM2-11

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S. cavourensis AM2-4

S. macrospo­reus AM2-8

Color of substrate mycelium Yellow

Dark Yellow Light Yellow brown brown yellow brown

S. rochei AM5-16

Spore mass

White

Light brown

Diffusible pigments

Ivory

Off white Light grey

Cream

Red brown

Yellow

Cream

Creamish

Cream

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Glucose

+ + + – + + + + – + + + – + + +

Rhamnose

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Mannitol

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Raffinose

+ + + + + + + +

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Table III Closest BLASTN matches for the full 16S rRNA sequences and their percentage similarity with the closest actinobacterial strains. Closest species

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Streptomyces globisporus

KC511801 98%

AM2-3

Streptomyces roseoviolaceus

KC511802 99%

AM2-4

Streptomyces cavourensis

KC511803 100%

AM2-10

Streptomyces celluloflavus

KC511804 99%

AM2-11

Streptomyces albogriseolus

KC511805 100%

AM2-7

Streptomyces spiralis

KC511806 100%

AM2-8

Streptomyces macrosporeus

KC511807 98%

AM5-16

Streptomyces rochei

KC511808 100%

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Fig. 2. Restriction digestion band­ ing pattern of isolates amplified by 16S rDNA and digested by Taq I, Msp I and Hae III restric­ tion enzymes.

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Lane M: 100bp molecular weight marker (Genei, Bangalore), Lane 1: AM2-2, Lane 2: AM2-3, Lane 3: AM2-4, Lane 4: AM2-10, Lane 5: AM2-11, Lane 6: AM2-7, Lane 7: AM2-8 and Lane 8: AM5-16

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Fig. 3. UPGMA cluster analysis showing the genetic relationship among eight isolates of Actinomycetes, banding pattern based on restriction digestion by restriction enzyme Taq I, Hae III and Msp I

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enough information available in the public databases (Zhang et al., 1998; Malviya et al., 2011; Yandigeri et al., 2012), but Streptomycetes isolated from stressed habi­ tats with plant growth promoting potential have not been studied extensively. Bacteria isolated from differ­ ent stressed habitats possess stress tolerance capacity alongwith plant growth-promoting traits. Salinity toler­ ance and the ability of Streptomycetes for the produc­ tion of extracellular enzymes, plant growth promoting attributes and other activities were evaluated and it was reported that all the 8 (100%) Streptomycetes isolates from mangrove region could tolerate up to 8% NaCl concentration showing optimum growth at 6% NaCl concentration, hence the strain could be placed in inter­ mediate salt tolerance group according to Tresner et al. (1968). The ability of Streptomyces strains to tolerate high concentrations of NaCl is well known (Waksman, 1959). Similar results were reported from the Streptomycetes isolated from Indo-Gangetic Plains (IGP) (Malviya et al., 2011), and halophilic Streptomycetes from India and their utilization in agricultural fields (Vasavada et al., 2006). Da Silva Sousa et al. (2008) stud­ ied six Streptomycetes isolated from rhizospheric soil of various crops and found out that they could tolerate a NaCl level up to 3%. Kavya et al. (2012), also reported salinity tolerance of Streptomycetes from Coringa man­ grove ecosystem but their results indicated a tolerance of 3–4% NaCl concentration, which is less as compared to isolates under current study. Sadeghi et al. (2012)

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Fig. 4. NJ phylogenetic tree of full 16S rRNA sequences from selected isolates. The sequence data for several closely related actinobacterial type cultures were recovered from GenBank and included in the tree. The boot strap values from 5,000 pseudoreplications are shown at each of the branch points on the tree. Bar indicates % similarity

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us to effectively differentiate the strains into distinct groups of actinobacteria. In our study, a total of 8 rep­ resentative isolates were identified by 16S rRNA gene sequence analysis as S. globisporus (KC511801), S. roseoviolaceus (KC511802), S. cavourensis (KC511803), S. celluloflavus (KC511804), S. albogriseolus (KC511805), S. spiralis (KC511806), S. macrosporeus (KC511807) and S. rochei (KC511808). All the isolates recorded 98–100% similarity with the representative isolates as shown in the Table III. Similar results were observed by Patil et al. (2010) and Malviya et al. (2011) the Streptomyces iso­ lated by them also showed 98–100% similarity except one isolate in case of Malviya et al. 2011 which was 96% similar with the representative isolate. The present study highlights that mangroves are the potential reservoirs for actinomycetes especially which can tolerate salt levels and biochemical and plant growth promotion assay of the isolates demon­ strates their potential to be used as biocontrol agents and biofertilizers which may play important role in plant growth promotion either directly or indirectly and thereby increase crop yield.

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Acknowledgements Authors are thankful to the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR), New Delhi, India for financial assistance under the Network project ‘Application of Microorganisms in Agriculture and Allied Sectors’ (AMAAS) and National Bureau of Agriculturally Important Microorganisms (NBAIM), Mau Nath Bhanjan, Uttar Pradesh, India for providing the lab facilities to carry out this work.

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reducers, 50% were phosphate solubilizers and 62.5% were HCN producers. In agriculture, biological phos­ phate solubilisation as an alternative to natural phos­ phate utilisation plays an important role in efficient nutrient uptake of plants. Patil et al. (2010) isolated nine antagonistic actinomycetes from IGP region and found that out of them 8 were Streptomycetes. Out of these eight Streptomycetes isolates five were phosphate solubi­ lizers and one produced HCN. Some actinomycetes are known to produce hydrolytic enzymes such as protease and amylase (Kaur et al., 2013). These enzymes help in preventing the crops from plant pathogens and del­ eterious microbes by degrading their cell walls. In our study we reported that five of our isolates could pro­ duce enzyme protease and three isolates were amylase producers. Also it was reported that five isolates were producing urease, three H2S producers and one isolate was able to show gelatinase activity. After studying the cultural and morphological characteristics of the potent plant growth promoting isolates, they were assigned under the genus Streptomyces. Concerning phenotypic characteristics, isolates produced varied colour aerial and substrate mycelia. Their chemotaxonomic charac­ teristics further validate that they all belong to genus Streptomyces as their cell wall contain L-diaminopimelic acid (cell wall type-I). Thus, this study is in accord­ ance with the previous reports that Streptomycetes are known to be predominant among actinomycetes with antagonistic and plant growth promoting potential and produce antifungal compounds (Ouhdouch et al., 2001; Kaur et al., 2013). The reliable generic identification of members of this genus by the first approach was confirmed by DNA sequence analysis. Vari­ations in 16S rDNA can also be assessed by analyzing restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) of 16S rDNA sequences. PCR based markers such as RAPD, RFLP, DAPD and SSR have been used to dis­criminate bacterial strains and to analyse genetic diver­sity (Yadav et al., 2013). In this study, we used 16S rDNA sequence-based phylogenetic analysis to investigate the species diversity of Strepto­ mycetes. It is also known that microbes with 16S rRNA sequence similarity up to 97% identical should be con­ sidered as members of the same genus (Petit et al., 1999; Malviya et al., 2011). Since all the isolates were belong­ ing to genus Streptomyces, we tried to study their diver­ sity using ARDRA, which is the rapid and convenient method, and can be very useful in grouping actinobac­ terial isolates efficiently as well as effectively reduce the number of isolates by de-replicating the isolates during screening for diversity (Jiang et al., 2010). In the current study, we used a set of three restriction endonucleases Msp I, Hae III and Taq I that specifically recognize the sequence ‘CCGG’, ‘GGCC’ and ‘TCGA’ respectively. The results of the different RFLP patterns obtained allowed

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